After several hours I have OpenLDAP server working, I can't seem to get the OS to use it to auth though, I have always managed this on previous versions of Fedora but 17 has me stumped.

Also, I have tried every which way to create a working TLS cert but have given up and deleted the lot so could do with a known/working method for this.

Please could someone point me in the right direction, all the guides posted that I have found so far are not relevanent to Fedora 17 and the one I did find which looked good broke it so badly it would no longer boot. I have no wish to remove pam-nss-ldapd and replace it with pam_ldap again!

If someone has a link to a good step-by-step I would really appreciate it, every one I have tried so far makes wrong assumptions or is just plain broken!

On the server side, I have no idea, I'm sorry. I do, in my more cynical moments, think that all people involved in coding and documenting LDAP are paid by MS to encourage people to use AD. (Obviously frustration on my part, not to be taken seriously.)

At one point, a few years ago, I had to implement LDAP for several things, and it literally took weeks, solely because documentation was so hard to find--that was when I made that page, with the hope of saving others.